Today’s edition of Sidney’s Picks is all about yesterday’s fast food walkouts in New York City.

• “Can fast food workers ever be unionized? Here, in New York, today, a lot of fast food workers decided to skip the theory and proceed directly to the “Fuck you, pay me” phase of the process,” writes Hamilton Nolan of Gawker.
• 200 workers from dozens of fast food restaurants around New York City walked off the job yesterday to demand higher wages, and the right to organize without retaliation. The walkout, organized by Fast Food Forward, was product of the largest organizing drive in the fast food industry. 
• Sarah Jaffe delves into the economics of fast food jobs.
• How the Wal-Mart strike inspired New York’s fast food workers. 

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]